Massive Japanese crash claims eight Ferraris and more

[Remagel2507]

Just seen this via Jalopnik - seem very bad hope everyone involved was ok

http://jalopnik.com/5864856/massive-japanese-crash...

Can anyone tell if that 360 is a CS or has it just got a big wing on it?

[sherbert90]

Ouch. Looks pretty bad...

[obscene]

Poor 355s

[marksx]

I'm sure they were all driving safely and at the speed limit.

[Puddenchucker]

At the risk of sounding all Institute of Advanced Motorists, it would seem that they must have been travelling too fast and/or too close together if none of them could avoid crashing...

[rallycross]

idiots driving.

[Codswallop]

Bloody Prius. Look what it caused.

[Attym3]

I hope the bloody Prius didn't cause it!

[pits]

White Testarossa there can't be many of them around

[Petrolhead_Rich]

Ouch, brings a tear to the eye seeing cars like that destroyed!!

[jay85]

Its OK they were only MR2s

[Remagel2507]

Does anyone know anything about that 512 ? There can't be many of them about surely, I've never seen one in real life before.

[LukeBird]

Puddenchucker said:

At the risk of sounding all Institute of Advanced Motorists, it would seem that they must have been travelling too fast and/or too close together if none of them could avoid crashing...

+1 Maybe one or two others getting caught in the botched overtake, but that many cars...?!

[soad]

Diablo too

[Deva Link]

Puddenchucker said:

At the risk of sounding all Institute of Advanced Motorists, it would seem that they must have been travelling too fast and/or too close together if none of them could avoid crashing...

Thanks for that - I think you should let the Japanese authorities know. They're probably completely baffled how it could have happened.

[5lab]

LukeBird said:

Puddenchucker said:

At the risk of sounding all Institute of Advanced Motorists, it would seem that they must have been travelling too fast and/or too close together if none of them could avoid crashing...

+1 Maybe one or two others getting caught in the botched overtake, but that many cars...?!

depends, even with appropraite stopping distances, if a car in front of you becomes stationry very quickly (ie its hit a barrier, or hits a car thats hit a barrier), you've very little time to react

[Hark]

Wow that's a big claim.

[dtmpower]

Puddenchucker said:

At the risk of sounding all Institute of Advanced Motorists, it would seem that they must have been travelling too fast and/or too close together if none of them could avoid crashing...

Have you ever been to Japan ?

Enthusiastic 'packed' high speed runs/convoys are par for the course there.

As well as modifying Ferrari/Lamboghini/Porsche and driving them hard.

I doubt this story will detract others from driving hard or even stop the victims being out next weekend in their other car or replacement they've just lost.

[EDLT]

LukeBird said:

Puddenchucker said:

At the risk of sounding all Institute of Advanced Motorists, it would seem that they must have been travelling too fast and/or too close together if none of them could avoid crashing...

+1 Maybe one or two others getting caught in the botched overtake, but that many cars...?!

From the article:
"A group of foreign car enthusiasts were heading to Hiroshima from Kyushu when one of the drivers lost control trying to overtake a car on a wet, curved part of China Road in Yamaguchi Prefecture. The Ferrari driver reportedly hit the median and created a reaction that caused the other cars in the lineup to crash, according to Japanese media (translated)."

I'm sure they just hit a patch of frozen diesel, nothing the driver could do.

[SonnyM]

Pause the end of the video and see how little tread there is on one of those 355s... Now if said dude was flooring it in 3rd gear in the rain with those tyres what could possibly go wrong?